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SOME OF YOUR BLOOD
Chapter 1 Chapter 8
Chapter 2 Chapter 9
Chapter 3 Chapter 10
Chapter 4 Chapter 11
Chapter 5 Chapter 12
Chapter 6 Chapter 13
Chapter 7


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...but first, a word:
You know the way. You have the key. And it is your privilege.
Go to the home of Dr. Philip Outerbridge. Go on inтАФyou have the key. Climb the stairs, walk to the
end of the corridor, and turn left. This is Dr. PhilтАЩs study, and a very comfortable and well-appointed one
it is. Books, couch, books, desk, lamp, books, books. Go to the deskтАФsit down; itтАЩs all right. Open the
lower right drawer. ItтАЩs one of those deep, double drawers. ItтАЩs locked? But you have the keyтАФgo ahead.
Pull it openтАФmore than that. All the way. ThatтАЩs it. See all those file-folders, a solid mass of them?
Notice how they are held in a sort of box frame? Well, lift it out. (Better get up; itтАЩs heavy.) There.
Underneath, lying flat, are a half-dozen foldersтАФjust plain file folders. Perhaps they are there to
level up the main box-frame; well, they certainly do that. Perhaps, too, they are there because they are
hidden, concealed, secret. Both perhapses could be true. And perhaps they are there because they are
valuable, now or later. Value is money, value is knowledge, value is entertainment... sentiment, nostalgia.
Add that perhaps to the others. It does not destroy them. And bear in mind that of the six folders, any of
six might be any or all of these things. You may look at one of them. The second one from the top. You
will note that it, like the others, is marked with Dr. OuterbridgeтАЩs name and, in large red capitals,
PERSONALтАФCONFIDENTIALтАФPRIVATE. But go ahead. Go right ahead; take it out, replace the box-frame,
close the drawer, light the lamp, make yourself comfortable. You may read through the papers in this
folder.
But first rest your hands on the smooth cream-yellow paperboard and close your eyes and think
about this folder which is marked CONFIDENTIAL and which is hidden in a drawer which is locked. Think
how it was filled some years ago, when Dr. Phil was a young staff psychologist in a large military
neuropsychiatric hospital. It happened that he was then two months short of the required age for a
commission, so he rated as a sergeant. Yet he had, since his freshman year in college, trained and
interned in psychological diagnosis and treatment at a famous university clinic, where be had earned a
graduate degree in clinical psychology.
It was wartime, or something very like it. The hospital was swamped, staggered, flooded. The staff
had to learn as many new tricks, cut as many unheard-of corners, work as unholy hours, as those in any


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other establishment that handled the goings and comings of war, be they shipbuilders or professors of
Baltic languages. And some of the staff, like some builders and teachers everywhere, were burdened by
too many hours, too little help, too few facilities, and too much tradition, yet found their greatest burden